Thanks,
so that means i have to add the account two times , 1st in google and
then in my application?

Ryan Shelley wrote:
> Yes, that's the possibility - and actually, that's usually how most test
> implementations work.  The idea is that Google will delegate authentication
> to you, so it's your responsibility to ensure that the user is properly
> authenticated to your network.  If there's a flaw in your application that
> allows a user to authenticate as someone else, then there's the potential
> that an individual could access another user's mailbox.  However, this
> "flaw" exists in most (if not all) SSO implementations.  In any SSO
> infrastructure, not just SAML, you should never capture the password from
> the user, store it, and pass it on to other resources.  Instead, you
> authenticate the user and generate a token that validates the user, then
> pass the token around to resources that trust that token, such as Google.
>
> If you don't want to create your own SSO infrastructure, you can use an
> existing SSO implementation such as CAS (http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/)
> that is known to integrate with Google (and dozens of other applications),
> is stable, secure, free (open-source), and very customizable.  Oh, and if it
> doesn't integrate with your application, and you can modify it's login
> process, you can integrated it with CAS yourself.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Dec 23, 2007 11:55 AM, ByteCode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > HI,
> > i have a question regarding sso , how does google know that the user
> > has a valid password? cuz i dont see any password submitted back to
> > google in saml response, in other words i may create a Login method
> > which always return the username which means the users is sucessfully
> > authenticated and anyone can login by just typing their username on my
> > sso page?
> > >
> >
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